teaching with writing

Peer Workshop for Final Paper

EngL3006W

(turn this in with your final portfolio)

Writer’s Name______________      Reader #1’s Name____________Reader #2’s Name____________________

For the Writer and Reader #1:    Writer, please tell the reader any clarifications you choose concerning your progress.  Reader, please mark on the writer’s paper a * where something is good and ? where something is confusing.  Talk over your concerns with the reader.

Writer: Please write a few sentences about improvements you will make based on this conversation.

For the Writer and Reader #2:   What particular issues would you like your readers to read for? (coherence, organization, argument/interpretation, brainstorming evidence, claims, analysis…).  Write your questions below.  Reader answer the questions with jotted down notes.

• Write T by where you think the thesis or center of gravity is.  (Is the thesis debatable, non-obvious, and of appropriate scope?)  Please paraphrase what you think the thesis is.  This may help you restate it for your introduction or conclusion.
  

• Write a C by a claim; an E by evidence; and an A by analysis.  Are the paragraphs in good proportion in lieu of these component parts? 
  

• Check each of your essays for some discussion about “significance,” which should answer the question: Why is it important to read your paper?  The “so what?” question.
  

• Finally, reread your paper aloud checking for redundant words, unnecessary adjectives like “very”, the use of “I”, “this,” “that.”